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steam iron
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steam iron
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I could not live without a steam iron, or an electric kettle.
▪ I have one rule - I never use a steam iron on my lace jumpers.
▪ The old cracked mug, the steam iron, odd pieces of cutlery and the reading lamp.
▪ Throwaway society Over the last year, I have had to replace my steam iron and hairdryer that had both developed faults.
Wiktionary
steam iron

n. A smoothing iron that includes a system for spraying steam onto the item being ironed.

WordNet
steam iron

n. a pressing iron that can emit steam

Usage examples of "steam iron".

Abercrombie on the floor of his kitchen, fortunately still alive, though groggy and bleeding profusely from a minor scalp wound occasioned by his having been struck by the new electric steam iron which he had presented to his wife on the occasion of their twenty-third wedding anniversary.

Baby Jenks jumped up and banged her with the steam iron till she stopped moving.

Detergent, bleach, starch, the lingering scent of hot cotton under a steam iron .

It came down with a steady hissing sound, like the world's biggest steam iron.

It's the shock, you see, shock takes the mind that way, and because the stump was bleeding like a bastard, excuse the language, I did him the favour of cauterizing the wound with the steam iron because it was good and hot, and if you sear a wound there's no way that bugger can bleed anymore.